HE00605 - Fatigue in the shipping industry

Fatigue in the shipping industry is the central issue of the study reported on.

This study sets out to find answers to the following research questions:

1. What can be concluded on the basis of national and international case descriptions of (registered) collisions and groundings and on the literature as to the causal link between fatigue and the shift system or fatigue and the occurrence of collisions and groundings?

2. Which measures, both on board as well as ashore, are (potentially) effective in reducing fatigue?

3. What is the effect of the most feasible measures (including substituting the two- shift system by the three-shift system) on the short shipping industry and the mari- time education in the Netherlands?